They threaten the power the state had carefully accrued amid recurring wars and the incessant preparation for war.
Sudan's recurring wars don't stem from religious conflict but from the Arab government's exploitation of various non-Arab groups on the country's periphery — including the southern Christians and predominantly Muslim groups like the Darfuris in the west, the Bejas in the east, the Nubians in the north and the Nuba in Kordofan.
Both sides agreed that this measure, the subject of the latest battle in the recurring abortion war in Congress, would not become law.
Where the narrative fireworks best fit their subject is in scenes of the recurring civil war: the violent eruption into the villages of Amin's retreating forces, the initial celebrations in Kampala when Obote's troops move in.
It is telling that conflict-affected and fragile states are furthest behind in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and that recurring civil war is now the dominant form of armed conflict.1 A renewed food crisis unfolding in 2011 is but one of several inter-related global trends with far-reaching consequences for the world's poorest.
Born in Athens in 1935, Angelopoulos lived through the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II and the ensuing 1946-49 Greek Civil War — recurring themes in his early films.
In his sculpture, there is a recurring emphasis on war and its instruments, usually to make a case for peace.
"The Parade" is a modernist dirge of a book that still packs an emotional wallop, telling the story of mankind's recurring and deadly war fever.
The sleeplessness, anxiety and irritability of post-traumatic stress disorder, for instance, often take months to emerge as combat veterans confront the tensions of home and the recurring memories of war.
On Israel's political left and right, there were apprehensions that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not use the conflict to try to create a new order in Gaza that does not involve recurring bouts of war.
